Carol B. Duncan is a writer, researcher and tenured professor in the Department of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto in sociology, a graduate diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and MA and PhD degrees in sociology, from York University. A British-born Caribbean Canadian woman of Antiguan and Guyanese heritage, Professor Duncan is a chronicler of cultural and religious life in the African Diaspora. Her research focuses on Black Church studies in Canada, Caribbean religions in transnational and diasporic contexts, religion and popular culture and women’s and gender studies. She held a fellowship in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and served as a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. She served as an academic consultant and appeared in the award-winning documentary Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada (2004). She won the Waterloo Region Arts Award for literature (2002). In addition to numerous articles and chapters, Professor Duncan is the author of This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007) and contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is co-editor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and The Black Church Studies Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Her latest book project is the co-authored Black Religion and Popular Culture: An Introduction (under contract with Routledge). Her teaching awards include the province-wide OCUFA (2007) and the Canadian national 3M Teaching Fellowship (2014). Professor Duncan’s short stories are published in Augur Magazine, Heartlines Spec, PREE Caribbean Writing and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Her short story “Peeny-Wally,” was nominated for The Journey Prize, appears in the anthology African Ghost Short Stories (Flame Tree/Simon & Schuster, 2024), and received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (and Peoetry) Anthology, Volume II (2022).